

Patton's 'killer division' - a band of men who showed no remorse as they moved through Europe slaughtering the enemy. 'We could never tell him our problems for fear of what he'd do to bullies'Īt 17, Sheeran lied about his age to serve in the war and joined General George S. 'We never discussed it before he died and Charles didn't tell me the truth until the book came out,' says Dolores, a 55-year-old medical secretary. He died in 2003, aged 83, six weeks after reading the finished manuscript, and without revealing to his family what he'd done. In the final five years of his life, Sheeran poured his heart out to writer Charles Brandt. 'He said he was sorry and I drove him to the church to confess. I remember saying he had to be truly sorry for the things he'd done in the past, that if he had his time again he wouldn't do the things he'd done. 'Then towards the end of his life he told me he wanted absolution.

'He was among the top suspects and the FBI put him in prison time and again, hoping he'd crack. I made a comment about the coincidence but he brushed it off. 'I asked him where he had been and he said a wedding in the same area. 'I remember my father phoning to say Jimmy had disappeared from outside a restaurant in Detroit. 'One of my father's most cherished possessions was a gaudy gold and diamond watch Jimmy gave him. There must have been 1,000 people there, including Jimmy.

'The year before, when I was 19, there was a big benefit party for my father. She said he and Jimmy were as thick as thieves but my gut instinct told me otherwise. 'I suspected my father was behind Jimmy's death but I never asked him directly,' says Dolores. Kennedy.įor Sheeran's daughter Dolores Miller, the interest in her father is bittersweet. The Irishman starts filming later this year and will also cover Sheeran's alleged role in the assassination of American President John F. Now Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are set to bring Sheeran's extraordinary life to the big screen. Schoolgirl: Sheeran's daughter, Dolores Miller, a couple of years before Jimmy Hoffa disappeared
